MR. DAYTON AND GENTLEMEN OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY:--I shall only thank
you briefly for this very kind reception given me, not personally, but as
the temporary representative of the majesty of the nation. To the
kindness of your hearts, and of the hearts of your brethren in your
State, I should be very proud to respond, but I shall not have strength
to address you or other assemblages at length, even if I had the time to
do so. I appear before you, therefore, for little else than to greet you,
and to briefly say farewell. You have done me the very high honor to
present your reception courtesies to me through your great man a man with
whom it is an honor to be associated anywhere, and in owning whom no
State can be poor. He has said enough, and by the saying of it suggested
enough, to require a response of an hour, well considered. I could not in
an hour make a worthy response to it. I therefore, ladies and gentlemen
of New Jersey, content myself with saying, most heartily do I indorse all
the sentiments he has expressed. Allow me, most gratefully, to bid you
farewell.